Decades after he drew on Balzac for his magnum opus Out 1, Rivette returned to the writer for this 19th-century chamber drama, in which the flirtation between a soldier (Depardieu) and a noblewoman (Balibar) develops into an obsessive game of romantic cat and mouse. The director’s coolly classicist approach yields “a nearly impeccable work of art—beautiful, true, profound” (Manohla Dargis, The New York Times).

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